Rome: the stairway to the Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli (left) and the Capitol (right). Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1757.
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
- Date:
- [1757?]
- Reference:
- 3029770i
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About this work
Description
The streets and staircase are animated with tourists and pilgrims, fighting dogs, grand carriages, people begging for alms etc.
Publication/Creation
[Roma [Rome]] (a Strada Felice, nel Palazzo Tomati, vicino alla Trinità de'Monti) : presso l'autore [G.B. Piranesi], [1757?]
[Paris] : [Francesco and Pietro Piranesi], [between 1800 and 1807]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; platemark 40.3 x 54.4 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Veduta del Romano Campidoglio con scalinata che va alla chiesa d'Araceli. Architettura di Michelangelo Bonaroti. Piranesi del. scol.
Bears number: 15.III
A key in the bottom margin identifies eight buildings
Edition
[Hind's state III: 1st Paris ed.].
References note
A.M. Hind, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: a critical study, with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome, New York 1922, p. 49, no. 38 (as dated 1775 mistakenly for 1757)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 3029770i
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Location Status Access Closed stores